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LeConte History

6/4/2012

 
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Paul Adams with his dog Cumberland Jack. You can go to the website to see a better version of this picture. Click on the picture and it will take you to the website.
Some of you were interested in the history of Mt. LeConte. I will save some of the history lessons for Nathan, afterall, he is a pretty darn good story teller. As for the history of Mt. LeConte, Paul Adams played a huge roll in its making.

This is an excerpt  from Wikipedia:

Although the mountain was measured in the 1850s, very little activity took place on the mountain until the 1920s, when Paul Adams moved to Knoxville, Tennessee. An enthusiastic hiker and explorer, Adams spent much of his free time creating adventures in the mountains. In 1924 he joined the Great Smoky Mountain Conservation Association, a group dedicated to making the region into a national park. As part of this push, later that year he led an expedition up the mountain with dignitaries from Washington, in order to show the group what rugged beauty those mountains held. The group spent the night in a large tent which would later become a cabin, and eventually the LeConte Lodge, a popular resort near the top of the peak. The trip was a great success and about a decade later Mount Le Conte, and the surrounding region, was protected as part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.


There are some great pictures of the first camp that existed on top of Mt. LeConte. Click on the photo above and it should take you to the website. I hope you enjoy a step back in time. I always love seeing photos of what the camp and cabins looked like through out the years.
doug y
6/4/2012 01:17:48 am

Thanks for the photo; If I could travel back in time it would be interesting to see the Park in the 1920's, or earlier. Development of the Lodge over the years would make a fascinating book. Personally, I don't think of the lodge as a resort; it's more than that,

Katie Gohn
6/4/2012 01:25:36 am

If anyone is interested in looking at more historic photographs and other information about the Smokies, pop on over the the University of TN Knoxville's Great Smoky Mountains Regional Project page here:

http://libguides.utk.edu/smokies

If you click on the tab to "Digital Collections," you will see a few different photograph collections you can browse through.

Libraries are awesome!

Bill Yeadon
6/4/2012 02:14:59 am

Awesome pics. Can't thank you enough.

Jusmita foust
6/4/2012 02:35:06 am

Great pictures

Debi link
6/4/2012 03:25:53 am

I have read a story about Cumberland Jack. He could be a rotton dog getting the neighbors chickens and then he could scare the bad guys off the mountain. Yes, he was a typical good dog, Love the pics

Juanita
6/4/2012 04:05:27 am

I love those stories about mt leconte

doug y
6/4/2012 04:57:41 am

Katie: thanks very much; I will go there.

Brian N bama
6/4/2012 05:41:27 am

Hoping the weather is perfect sunday and monday. Overnight in the shelter with my boys. Can't think of a better place to make memories with my kids than on Mt. Leconte. See y'all sunday!!!!!

Bryan Be
6/5/2012 01:45:55 am

The story of the early days at Leconte Lodge are really great. There's a great article in one of the first issues of Smokies Life magazine that tells about Paul Adams and some of his adventures with Cumberland Jack. It's amazing that he was able to train the dog to pack supplies up to the Lodge, from Ogle's store, all on his own...

karen LeConte
8/26/2013 09:06:33 am

My family name is LeConte, how common is this????


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